It was such a great study imo and rightfully deserves a lot of attention since it's a great alternative to twitter vibes.

But to stop here and say AI coding doesn't work will just not hold up well. We have a sample size of 16 developers for 250 tasks.

Here is my data point: adding AI to your engineering team really is like adding a new member. At first it slows everybody down: explain this, explain that, stupid mistake made that the experienced dev would have avoided. But over the months you learn how to get the most out of them: they speak fluently all programming languages, don't mind writing 20 tests or coming up with good industry ideas to your problems.

Over time I have come to appreciate that the market is rather smart and even hype has its place. You often have to cross a line to know you crossed it, especially with something as fuzzy and quickly changing as technological progress hitting the messy real world. But then again, we need the heretics to stay smart and not follow an emperor without clothes.